Auto AF-S/AF-C selection (AF-A)
Continuous-servo (AF-C)
Face-Priority AF available in Live View only and D-Movie only
Full-time Servo (AF-A) available in Live View only
Manual (M) with electronic rangefinder
Normal area
Single-servo AF (AF-S)
Wide area

Auto AF-S/AF-C selection (AF-A)
Continuous-servo (AF-C)
Face-Priority AF available in Live View only and D-Movie only
Full-time Servo (AF-A) available in Live View only
Normal area
Single-servo AF (AF-S)
Wide area
Manual focus (M): Electronic rangefinder can be used

d5100 Memory card
The following table shows the approximate number of pictures that can be stored on an 8 GB Toshiba R95 W80MB/s UHS-I SDHC card at different image quality and size settings.

Mirror lock up
d5100 Custom Settings menu
In situations where the slightest camera movement can blur pictures, select On to delay shutter release until about 1 s after the shutter-release button is pressed and the mirror is raised.

d5100 Rotate the live view switch.
The mirror will be raised and the view through the lens will be displayed in the camera monitor.

d5200 Lock mirror up (it is fully same as the d5100)
Highlight Lock mirror up for cleaning in the setup menu and press.

how can gopro, sony, fujifilm and others all offer 1080 60p, and Nikon can only pull 60i (not usable for cool slow motion effects )? . I guess i can start doing movies in 720p again like it’s 2003. Firmware possibility for d800/d600? I’m sure i don’t understand the video compression process well enough to complain…idk

Arkasai

The sensors in DSLR’s are not designed for that, compare the D800 sensor to a RED Mysterium-X and you’ll see the RED’s frame is less than half the size of the D800, runs way hotter, needs internal fans, and external power. The other sensors that pull off high fps like the Nikon 1 or GoPro have point and shoot sized sensors.

Engineering a full frame DSLR that also shoots like a cinema camera is like trying to combine a submarine and space station. It won’t be pretty and it’ll cost a lot of money. Canon’s 4K DSLR will be cheap for a cinema camera but it will cost way more than a 1Ds.

scott800

Arkasai, I would totally agree except there are full frame/ and aps-c sensor cameras currently shooting 60p at 1080 that aren’t $12000? What about the Sony RX-1? or the Fujifilm x100s? With video, the image sensor of the D800 is using a fraction of its available pixels to compose a movie file. If the camera just used the DX or point and shoot (cx maybe?) area of the sensor isn’t that the same thing? sure, we’d get a crazy crop factor, but slow motion! 60p or 120p?

Miha Rupnik

To be honest, no big difference except for 24 vs 16 MP and 39 vs 11 focus points. I like that they put 39 point AF in that body, but 24MP is overkill for most amateur users.

the 39 AF point (straight from the D7000) has more misses in terms of accuracy then the older 11 AF points – some users already reported back-front focus issues. The fact that Nikon did not integrate AF-Fine tune on the D5200 is a big bummer.

Miha Rupnik

I own D600 with modified 39 point AF, and I love it! But if it uses unmodified 39 point AF then there could be some problems.

But D5100/D5200 lacks AF tuning option, so there could be actually lens problems and not AF itself.

I used Tamron 70-200 F2.8 on D5100 and I was disappointed, but when I fine-tuned that lens on D600 I love it more and more each day.

takacsgabor.com

Is any lenses out there truly capable of resolving more than 16MP resolution on DX?

mmdccbslm

yes! I use the Nikon 18-105 and the Sigma 18-250. the 18-105 is truly sharp.

jvm156

the 18-105 was the worst lens i ever owned. i started using primes right after that and sold it when i bought my 28-80 2.8

mmdccbslm

sorry. I don’t know what camera you had, but it is quite nice with my D5200. Very nice. I’ve done portraits and action shots.

timon_comment

NikonRumors listed the d5100 specifications of have some missing items or wrong,

BernhardAS

Hi Admin
my “pet peeve” is annotations in tables without explanations. What do the three stars in “Lens Compatibility” mean???

Csaba Molnár

Some correction – the CLS compatibility might be misleading – neither of the cameras support CLS with the pop-up flash. This is a bummer – now Canon’s Rebel series support wireless lighting. It used to be the other way around. More Nikons supported CLS – d70, d80, d90, d7000 (while Canon had the 60d and 7d). Of course, all cameras support CLS if you put a flash on it that has commander mode, but when it comes to camera specs, the d7000 and d300 is the only APS-C models that support CLS.

Maciej Długosz

I own D5100. In D5200 they didn’t add an option to change white balance by using Kelvin scale (I miss that). And viewing through Live View mode (in Aperture Mode) is propably still as weird as it is in D5100: if You change aperture the DOF doesn’t change untill You make a photo (there is no active DOF preview). And with D5200 it’s propably (still) not possible to change aperture during filming. I also miss information about aperture on which the movie has been recorded (heck, if You check photos you get information what aperture was used after you made the shot, but why the hell movies don’t have that data included after being shot??). What a weird upgrade: extra pixels, stereo mic and 39 AF points. Not worth the +$300 price (in my opinion).

krikman

Matters only 2 points:
1. New AutoISO logic
2. new AF module.

And this is great achievement. Imagine what D7X00 will be…
If only Nikon had competitive dx zooms, i.e. 16-70 f/4 dx and 35-135 f/4 dx that would be dreamkit…

Shawn

Agree, as a current D5100 owner those are the two things I’m sad about not having.

Yes (for the nay-sayers), I do need more cross focus points – focus and recompose doesn’t work for active subjects, doesn’t work at large apertures, and doesn’t work for TTL flash.

Photoguy2013

Flash sync speed comparison?

Rob Young

I would love to see this comparison expanded to include the D3100 and D3200. As a D3100 owner who is looking to upgrade in the next few months I would like to see side by side comparisons of those four models of camera.

No reason to upgrade from d3100 to any of these in my honest opinion. Buy lenses instead buddy :]

Shawn

Yes yes yes. My opinion these days is that anyone new should buy the cheapest lowest level SLR they can, and master the hell out of it. Buy lenses and a cheap off-camera manual flash setup and master them. Then save money for a fancier camera with more buttons. I agree the D3100 is a great place to start.

Basically if I could do it all over again I would do exactly what I just wrote.

stormwatch

Just to add something about Video mode on D5200. I have been testing D5200 now for about two months, and besides the fact that video mode is really good in terms of much lower aliasing, moire artifact and cleaner high ISO performance as well. It also has such annoying rolling shutter problem which can be easily seen even on the 17-18mm wide, not to mention going towards telephoto…I mean, with such a high density sensor and the way video is recorded it has to be some rolling shutter but D5200 has rolling shutter even with the slightest TILT movements not just panning. Nikon again managed to stop a cheap (now not so cheap) camera to be an ultimate reporters tool. First they did not put the full manual video mode on D5100, but D5100 is rolling shutter wise, the DSLR camera with the slightest rolling shutter artifacts up to date.

raizee

The sensors are prolly pretty much equal. The main improvement is the focusing system. A shame the D5200 didn’t have CLS commander mode (the competitor from Canon has the Canon equivilant of this).

mmdccbslm

for the D5200, the focus point/depth problem persists. you have to adjust your focal point if it’s off center of the frame. You have to be extra careful of motion because you WILL lose your shot while the camera decides what your focus point is. I’ll be upgrading to the D7100, next year or a D7200, maybe, as Nikon appears to be playing catchup-model-of-the-month with Canon(T3i/T4i/T5i/70D).